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Wine, which allows users to Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, and Solaris to run Windows-based applications, has been updated to version 1.5.28. The developers spent quite a lot of work, improving application performance with the old and the new games (including the hit Bioshock Infinite) and fix bugs.

An incomplete list of changes is as follows:

• GnuTLS is now used for all secure connections.
• MAC-default driver activated.
• Made various improvements to the Postscript-driver.
• Fixed problem with displaying the main menu Audiosurfs.

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On a system that is Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for porting a popular game engine, Torque 2D MIT on the platform Android. As the name implies, the engine is distributed under a free license MIT.

At the moment, the engine supports platforms Windows, OS X, iOS. Upon successful completion, the company Max Gaming promises about a month to port the engine to devices based on Android 2.3 + (including Ouya).On account of Max Gaming few games based on the Torque engines, including issued under Linux. They have also been fulfilled porting T2D on XBOX 360 and other engines from iOS to Android.

In addition, with the successful financing of the project Nathan Martin (Nathan Martin) from the community of T2D, together with the employee Max Gaming Tim Newell (Tim Newell) promise to perform porting of the engine for Linux.
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The graphics cards and chip specialist Nvidia at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2013 presented with “Project Shield” own Android console. The hand-held device with a five-inch display offers a full controller and the latest generation of mobile computing as Tegra chips heart.

“ Project Shield ”also uses at CES 2013 featured Tegra 4 with four CPU cores and 72 graphics, which according to the manufacturer offers six times as much as the line graphics, familiar from the HTC One X and Microsoft Surface RT predecessor. In this case, the new chip consumes up to 45 percent less power than the Tegra third This promises best HD video enjoyment on the “retinal display” with 1,280 x 720 pixel resolution, the necessary power for uninterrupted joy even in complex games, while a battery life of several hours – better quantified, Nvidia’s statements but not yet.
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The company system 76 from the United States offers a laptop for playing enthusiastic buyers who can look like some desktop Pc pale.

System 76 includes four notebooks with Linux pre-installed 14 to 17 inches. The top model is the Bonobo Extreme, a 17.3-inch laptop with a weight of almost four kilograms. The hardware equipment makes the Bonobo Extreme interesting for players who want to wear a PC to the next LAN party. Also multimedia enthusiasts could wallow in the bonobo.

The buyer of configurable in many parts notebook comes in the basic equipment with a Core i7-3630QM CPU from Intel, which is supported by eight GB of dual-channel DDR3 1600 MHz clock speed. The memory is expandable up to 32 GB. For the graphic provides a Geforce GTX from Nvidia 670MX with 3 GB of GDDR5 RAM, the reflection in the in the basic 17.3-inch screen running at 1920 x 1080 pixels. That’s enough for 1080p full high definition.
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Killing Floor - FPS in the genre of survival horror. This is the second game released for GNU / Linux by Tripwire Interactive, after Red Orchestra: Ostfont 41-45. The game is based on a modified engine Unreal Engine 2.5, includes both single and multiplayer games.

Features:

• Action team, where everyone takes a role in the fight against hordes of creatures.
• From an assortment of weapons scatter eyes bring down mutants with axes and guns, grenade launchers and shotguns!
• Close and barricade the door – do not let the monsters break or on the meter!
• Accumulate the experience and develop your character!
• Survive at all costs and remember – you are a team! (more…)

Red Orchestra: Ostfont 41-45 - game in the genre of tactical first-person shooter (tactical FPS), devoted to the actions of the Red Army and the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front of World War II. Available multiplayer modes and practice with bots.

The game includes the following classes:

• Shooter / Schütze,
• Shooter auto / Schütze mit MK,
• Submachine / Stoßtruppe,
• Gunner / MG-Schütze,
• The squad / Gruppenführer,
• Sapper / Sharfschütze,
• PT-Soldat/Pak-Soldat,
• The crew / Panzerbesatzung,
• Tank commander / Panzerführer. (more…)

After the publication of the previous series on kickstarter, perhaps the most interesting episode for GNU / Linux users is the free will of Muscovites Dodo Games, vayayuschih kosmodyaboloid Divine Space, which declared the port on GNU / Linux, albeit with some delay. It also makes sense to shop MORE, where developers have found additional funding (the project has already collected the required amount to kickstarter) and significantly lowered the bar for the release of GNU / Linux-port simultaneously with the main release and Russian localization to quite achievable.
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October seems to be a good month for multimedia projects to be. Besides XMBC Amarok also celebrates its 10th Birthday.

Under the motto “Roktober 2012« the Amarok team celebrates his 10th in October Birthday. Amarok is one of the flagship projects under Linux. It is created based on the Qt framework and stands for linuxoide operating systems and, since 2009, for Micrososft Windows. Since Amarok followed the development of KDE 4, two projects have split, having retained the user interface of Amarok in KDE 3. It is the Pana audio player and Clementine . The development of Pana has now been incorporated into Clementine.
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As is known, this month will begin closed beta testing of the Steam client for Linux, in which 1000 people will be able to take part. The main limitation of the test version is that you can only play in one game, the title of which unless remains under a veil of secrecy.

Not assigning even an approximate release date of final release, Valve has already submitted a list of games that will be included in the stable release of Steam. In an added twenty-one game, and the list continues to grow.
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Flare (Free / Libre Action Roleplaying Engine) – engine to create isometric action RPG. As the game and the engine develops more than two years, Clint Bellange. Unfortunately, the game is still in the alpha stage of development. If you want to help the developer of the material, it can be done on http://flarerpg.org/donate .

Major changes:

• held refraktoring code;
• added ability to display FPS;
• added ability to treat NPC hero during the dialogue;
• The sound is not loaded, if the volume is turned down to zero;
• is now possible to configure the buff / debuff;
• The ability to configure the font color;

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